Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Pyrenees Journal III: Capturing the Dalis

photograph by Hallie Cohen

Salvador Dali gave his beloved wife Gala the castle in Pubol, which is now open to the public, on the condition that he was
only allowed to visit her by appointment. Gala, who had initially been married
to the poet Paul Eluard, was a fixture of a circle of surrealist poets,
painters and filmmakers which included Louis Aragon, Luis Bunuel and Rene
Magritte—all who been guests in Dali’s house in Cadaques the fateful summer of
l929 when he and Gala first fell in love. This passage from Dali’s The Secret Life of Salvador Dali is quoted in an exhibition monograph: “She was to be my Gradiva who advances my
victory, my wife.” Gradiva as the monograph explains was the heroine of a novel
by W. Jensen “who carries out a psychologic cure on the main character.” Did
Gala cure Dali? She was definitely a kind of perverse muse and her house with
its curiosities looks a little like what Luis Bunuel might have provided for
clients if he had decided to be a residential developer rather than a
filmmaker. The back of a chair reveals a 3-D vista, a lion’s head sits above an
armoire and the famous garden includes elephants with giraffe’s legs. No Dali house would be replete without a Cadillac and this one has a Cadillac Deville (Dali accentually created a Cadillac that rained inside which sits on the ground floor of the Dali Theatre-Museum in Figueres). And there’s a chess set in which all the pieces are fingers. The
universe Dali inhabited was a perverse one and if you want Capturing the Friedmans surrealist style, the Gala house gives you a feeling for
the existence in which the great artist was basically an absent figure in his own home, an eminence gris, who pulled the strings, while his wife cavorted with other men (as Dali pursued his own intimacies with the likes of Frederico Garcia Lorca and undoubtedly others). What is notably touching is the basement crypts designed with a hole through which the two corpses would be able to hold hands. But how did Gala attend to so many lovers in such a small bed?

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About Me

Francis Levy's debut novel, Erotomania: A Romance, was released in August 2008 by Two Dollar Radio.
His short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Village Voice, The East Hampton Star, The Quarterly, Penthouse, Architectural Digest, TV Guide, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and other publications. One of his Voice humor pieces was anthologized in The Big Book of New American Humor (HarperCollins). He is presently the Co-Director of The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination (philoctetes.org), where he supervises roundtable discussions on topics as varied as “The Psychology of the Modern Nation State” and “Modern Traffic Theory, Behavior, and Imagination”.